00:00You know of the AQI of the place you are at, WHO would say 5 microgram per meter cube is the safe limit and there we constantly experience 100, 200, even 600 and that's what the common man gets as a result of the development that benefits mostly the rich.
00:21What you get as drinking water are the reverse drinkable. Climate change as a calamity is going to affect the poor and the marginalized, the first and the worst. The rich, the real perpetrators of the emissions would be the last one to be affected and they would be affected the least.
00:44So when we say development, we are talking of the common man, right? We need to be extremely clear on the definitions of our national imperatives. What do we want to call as development? Education levels, that's what corresponds to development.
01:00When you talk of cities, they must be livable. There must be public transport. Otherwise you are forcing even the unwilling ones to buy not just one but two cars. You must have parks. You must have roads in the villages. You must have means through which kids, especially girls, can travel to schools. That's development.
01:25Development. Development is not about skyscrapers and the Instagram images that bombard you with lavishness.
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